Candid insights

Find out why small grants unlock critical funding that help nonprofits lacking any funding sources to get their cause off the ground, especially when combined with deep listening and trust-based philanthropy funder practices.

Explore the relationship between foundations’ CEO compensation and their annual grantmaking by type, tenure, gender, and race to learn how resources are distributed within these organizations.

Find out why asking better questions in funder research and program evaluation holds the key to unlocking more equitable outcomes for the people that nonprofits serve–and get expert guidance on how to do so in practice.

Get an inside look into Ford Foundation’s DEI, including their staff culture that embodies diversity, equity, and inclusion and the intentional steps they took to build it.

Get expert professional advice and wellness tips to help Black fundraisers achieve success in their work to support community needs–without sacrificing their personal well-being along the way.

Dig into data on the nonprofit workforce to learn why its workers are in need of financial support to be able to make ends meet in their own lives while working to improve those of others.

Learn about the newest version of the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS), and how community input shaped Candid’s updated taxonomy to offer a fuller and more robust picture of the organizations that make up the social sector.

Learn what intermediary organizations are, the role they play in advancing equity in the sector, and how funders can best support intermediaries’ work to provide vital infrastructure for today’s nonprofits and causes.

To help nonprofits safely and responsibly benefit from latest tech, learn how a new breed of platforms combine AI-powered smart search and Candid data to make grant prospecting and writing easier, faster, and more effective.